Just watching the footage makes me wonder... will beautiful sights I've captured this past year still be there next year for people to experience for themselves? How about 5 years? 10? 30 years from now? Will my kids be able to experience New Zealand the same way I did? See the glaciers? Auroras? Crystal clear lakes perfectly reflecting the snow capped mountains? Will I be able to continue to travel, see some of the sights captured in the movie for myself? Nothing is more amazing than Earth's natural beauty. I hope we can all continue to capture its magnificence as well as its beauty for generations to come.
Here is the YouTube channel for the HOME http://www.youtube.com/homeproject
Definitely worth checking it out, at the very least, enjoy the spectacular footage gathered here.
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Change is inevitable. Earth will always be beautiful. Your children will see a different beauty than the one you saw.
ReplyDeleteAnd human impact or not, the earth will always change its face and appearance, more or less radically... and maybe for the worse with human impact, especially when you look at the time spans in which we humans are trapped and how much damaged we have done in the short time that we had on earth yet compared to the age of the planet itself... but still...
The areas that are covered by the biggest glaciers in the alps were green with trees 4000 years ago. It was found out just now that the ice is melting away again.
So: the more we think we know about, the greater the unknown (to quote one of my favorite bands)...
Yeah totally. It's just scary to think how many species of plants/animals we've killed. The amount of air/water we polluted... the amount of forest we've destroyed... and replaced with buildings that cover the sky. Eh... we'll see what the outcome is...
ReplyDeleteFor me personally, the moral of the story I learned is that 1) people don't want to change 2) because of that, change is inevitable. My take now is... go ahead and take your Alaska cruise NOW and take tons of pictures so that you can tell your kids how wonderful the world was in 2009.
ReplyDeleteAfter the cruise all the Americans can continue their God given rights to drive big SUVs to-and-from Walmart and big McMansions. Yes, people will continue to bicker about global warming and what everyone should do, but most likely little behavioral changes will occur. Earth gets polluted. Life goes on.
LOL my Alaskan cruise with my new 5D2? :) Sounds like a plan!
ReplyDeleteKamera Kevin, i like your 1st 2 sentences-very insightful.
ReplyDeleteI think the earth was made for people and people were made for the earth; we go together. We love the earth and see it as beautiful because it suits us. The only problem is that there are too many of us. Let's have babies, but, not so many---there once was a movement called, ZPG, zero population growth. We can probably have a better chance of preserving the natural beauty we enjoy if we just replace ourselves and don't add more. The physical environment is currently overburdened.